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A type of Stock Shout-Out and parody of an event from the '90s. In 1993, Warner (Bros.) Records legally prevented the musician Prince Rogers Nelson from releasing music under a different label using his legal first name "Prince", as they owned a trademark on it. As part of a Take That!, he changed his name to an unpronounceable, and then-untypeable "love symbol", which resembles a modified transgender symbol, oriented in the same direction as the female symbol and given a second, longer, and more stylized bar at the base of the shaft.note "O(+>" is an ASCII art approximation of this symbol, and Warner Bros. was forced to supply the print media with a new font containing the symbol. "Ƭ̵̬̊" is another approximation out there that reflects the proper orientation, but it's far more difficult to type out, and often doesn't render correctly due to the use of the notoriously-finicky combining diacritical marks. Currently, the symbol is unavailable in Unicode due to it being a copyrighted logo as opposed to a public-domain symbol. In response, the phrase "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" was coined by a public that had no idea what else to call him, and quickly became a very popular target for parody thanks to its obtuseness. His contract with Warner expired three years later, but Warner still owned the trademark on the name "Prince" until 2000, after which the musician went back to his given name. Once he did, it effectively made him the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, if you're being technical. Not to be confused with Renamed Tropes. |
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Roundhouse: A Cinderella parody with TAFKAP as the Prince Charming. His name was announced as holding a cardboard sign with the symbol up and the sound effect of the first electronic riff plus 'uhn' in Prince's "Kiss". They started off calling him "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince And Now Represented By This Symbol" (holds sign up with riff playing) but skipped straight to holding up the sign with the riff. Back in season 2, when Prince's name-change was still recent, an Entertainment Tonight parody reported on this and said that several other celebrities followed suit, such as Steven Spielberg (a combination of the symbols for money and bad taste; Jurassic Park was also recent at this time as well) and Sylvester Stallone (the periodic symbol for iridium - the densest of the elements). This segment also provided the page quote. |
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Back in season 2, when Prince's name-change was still recent, an Entertainment Tonight parody reported on this and said that several other celebrities followed suit, such as Steven Spielberg (a combination of the symbols for money and bad taste; Jurassic Park was also recent at this time as well) and Sylvester Stallone (the periodic symbol for iridium - the densest of the elements). This segment also provided the page quote. | |
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In a stage adaptation of Aladdin, one prince vying for Jasmine's affection is "The Prince formerly known as The Artist" | |
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The Superbuddies — Formerly Known as Justice League of America. | |
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Used twice by The Simpsons; one of the puppies in the 101 Dalmatians parody is called "The Puppy Formerly Known as Prince", while "Lisa's Wedding" shows a list of arrested celebrities that includes "The Artist formerly known as *unpronounceable symbol*◊" and "The Artist formerly known as Buddy Hackett." One of the flashback episodes ("Lisa's Sax") is set during a time when "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was currently known as Prince." | |
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"The Artist Formerly Known as Spot" from 101 Dalmatians: The Series. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Colin Mochrie used this gag as the "top story" on Weird Newscasters. | |
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Castle: When they find a strange symbol among the evidence at a crime scene (part of a "th" that had snapped off a keychain), Castle suggests that it means the killer is The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, despite it not directly resembling his symbol. | |
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8-Bit Theater: After the gang learns that Thief is actually the prince of the elves: | |
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From Spamalot: "the artists formerly known as the Knights Who Say Ni". | |
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In an episode of House of Mouse Donald Duck tries to become a celebrity and changes his name to the "Duck Formerly Known as Donald." Mickey ended the episode by calling himself "The Mouse Currently Known As Mickey". | |
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In Rick and Morty episode "Close Rick Counters of the Rick Kind", during the rundown of the unprecedented 'rick-icidal epidemic,' Rick questions the Rick known as "The scientist formerly known as Rick." | |
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By the Discworld novel Unseen Academicals the Dean of Unseen University has moved on to become the Archchancellor of competing Brazeneck University in Pseudopolis between books. Early in the book members of UU faculty and even the narration itself struggle with how to refer to him in a manner that both reflects his current title and specifies they do not mean their own Archancellor Ridcully. Then in a gathering with the wizards Patrician Vetinari repeatedly calls him "The Archchancellor formerly known as Dean", which seems to stick. | |
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Meanwhile, after Goldust's Heel–Face Turn didn't go so well, WWF had him turn back heel, trade his black and gold for a red, black, and green outfit, and dub himself The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust. | |
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MadTV parodied this along with The Prince of Egypt in a sketch called, appropriately enough, "The Artist Formerly Known as The Prince of Egypt". | |
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The subject of a game of 'Limerick' on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (where the contestants are given an opening line and have to complete a limerick by supplying one line each in turn): | |
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Following a lawsuit by EMI Records, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing retitled their album Now That's What I Call Steampunk! as The Steampunk Album That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons. | |
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Long before the Prince situation, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Knights Who Say Ni demand... a shrubbery! When King Arthur and co. bring a shrubbery back... | |
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The Order of the Stick: Among the suggested In-Series Nicknames for a vampire is "The Corpse Formerly Known as Durkon." | |
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At the time when Prince was "the Artist Formerly Known as Prince", Tony Martin and Mick Molloy did a bit on the Martin/Molloy radio show about how his close friends get to call him 'Formerly'. It was later included on one of their albums. | |
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FKA twigs' stage name was born from this. It was originally just Twigs, but after a complaint from the pop duo The Twigs, she added a "Formerly Known As" in front of it. | |
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Phoebe Bridgers has "The artist currently known as Phoebe Bridgers" as her bio on social media. | |
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An episode of The Nostalgia Critic has the titular critic wonder why King Koopa from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! isn't simply called "Bowser", or at least "The Artist Formerly Known as Bowser", cutting to a Koopa-fied Prince symbol. | |
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From Digimon: The Movie: | |
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In Neopets, there's the "Weapon Formerly Known As Desert Axe Weapon", with a Monty Python reference in its Flavor Text. | |
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In Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th: | |
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Addressed on The Hollywood Squares: | |
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In the Star Trek novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Singh, Roberta Lincoln calls Khan "The Artist Formerly Known As Noon." | |
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Used in the Knights of the Dinner Table strip "A Character with No Name" where Dave refuses to name his new character, and eventually ends up creating an unpronounceable symbol to designate the character. B.A. eventually tires of the whole thing and has the character smote by the gods. | |
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In a promotional spot for Good Burger, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell talked about how they're becoming big stars and that they'd like to known as "The artists formerly known as Kenan and Kel". Kel then shows their symbol: a white card with a black circle on it. Kenan takes a look and says "It's upside down." They then try to correct it. | |
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On 30 Rock, one of Tracy Jordan's antics was to declare that he was now to be addressed as "the gentleman formerly known as Rectum". | |
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On Lost, in between the point where Ben went by Henry Gale and where people started using his real name, Sawyer referred to him as "The Artist Formerly Known As Henry Gale". | |
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In the Recess episode "Yope From Norway", one of the suggestions for Gus's new alias is "The Kid Formerly Known As The New Kid". | |
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Animorphs: Ax always calls the leader of the group Prince Jake. (Ax is an Andalite, and 'Prince' is a military title.) During one issue where only the pair of them were left, Jake tells Ax that there aren't enough people around, so he should be called The Jake Formerly Known As Prince. Later, when the group is back together, the two go through their Running Gag ("Don't call me Prince." "Yes, Prince Jake") and Ax says, instead, "I will call you The Jake Formerly Known As Prince." When Rachel tests Marco by saying "You know you're a toad, right?" his answer is: |
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In a concert version of The Wizard of Oz featuring Nathan Lane as the Cowardly Lion, he adlibbed a line in the song "King of the Forest"; "If I were King of the Forest, not queen, not duke, not prince—or the Artist Formerly Known as Prince." | |
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In Shrek 2, during the Far Far Away Idol bonus film, Prince Charming sings "I'm Too Sexy" which is a performance so bad the group of judges ejects him off stage leading to a remark from Simon. | |
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On an episode of The Drew Carey Show Ryan Stiles was pretending to be a frog: "The frog formerly known as Prince." | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Naturally: the joke was played with in the Russo-Finnish movie The Sword and the Dragon: They also used this joke in Prince of Space ("Please, call me 'The Artist'"), and also in the short What About Juvenile Delinquency?: |
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On The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Battle of the Bands" the group is nearly separated by a series of disagreements. At one point Carl begins to speak with a British accent and tells Jimmy and Sheen to refer to him as "The Artist Formerly Known as Carl". | |
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In An Inconvenient Truth, a slowly-melting glacier park is referred to as "The Park Formerly Known as Glacier". | |
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In July 2023, the microblogging site Twitter was rebranded as X. Since this was a new and somewhat vague replacement for what had been a globally-recognized household name, news reports, websites (this one included) and other documents which mentioned the site generally began referring to it as "X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter)", or something along similar lines. | |
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Non Sequitur has referenced "the Prince formerly known as Charming." | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series : "I have had many names. Once I was known as Pharaoh. Then I was the artist formerly known as Pharaoh." | |
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In Dissonance, a mouse that really shouldn't be alive right now is referred to as "Lazarus," or "Lars" for short, because "the mouse formerly known as mangled carcass" was too long. | |
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In one episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny accidentally becomes a famous artist, all the fame drives him nuts and at some point he makes a quick doodle and claims that's how his new artistic name is pronounced. | |
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One Aladdin fanfic featured several Princes. One was called "The Prince Formerly Known as Artist", probably referencing the theater adaptation mentioned below. | |
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Used in Gold Digger, though it might have been topical when it was printed. Galford, a member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad, after getting some augmentations, changes his name to "大æ»". His boss's reaction: | |
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Ansom of Erfworld, after having his views on royalty changed by the events at Gobwin Knob, insists that he is "merely a warlord formerly known as Prince." | |
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child: In one episode, Mother Goose's decision to fly the coop leaves all the nursery rhyme characters in a muddle, and Humpty Dumpty starts referring to himself as "the egg formerly known as Dumpty." In another episode, "The Frog Princess," the title character entreats the prince to help her cook, and when he refuses on the grounds that he is a prince and thus can't cook, she sings him a song that includes the lyrics, "You could be the prince formerly known as helpless." |
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In Homestar Runner, when Marzipan is dressed as Prince for Halloween: | |
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On Doug during the Disney years, Connie starts to become famous for her music talents and having Roger become her manager. During her transition to becoming a rock star, Roger says "Her name is this" holding up a key chain that somewhat mimics the Prince symbol. | |
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Fallen London occasionally mentions The Magazine Formerly Known as the London Magazine: apparently after London fell, the Masters of the Bazaar demanded that the London Magazine change its name, but the editors were not in a cooperative mood. | |
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In a Key & Peele sketch, which features a list of players for the East/West Collegiate Bowl, the second to last one is "The Player Formerly Known As Mousecop", complete with a symbol. | |
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In the 1632 series, Don Fernando, the Spanish king's younger brother, was in holy orders as the "cardinal-infante" ("infante" is Spanish for "prince who's not heir to the throne"). Then he got a dispensation to give up being a cardinal. From that point on, there are occasional references to him as "the prince formerly known as cardinal-infante." | |
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Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties: | |
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